Reform you can believe in?

The blow inflicted on Democrats in the Massachusetts Senate election has endangered healthcare reform and other parts of the Obama agenda. But reforming financial regulation could be the one major legislative initiative that both parties can get behind in 2010.

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Republican Scott Brown, a state senator, won a U.S. Senate seat in Massachusetts, defeating Martha Coakley, a once heavily favored Democratic state attorney general. The seat was previously held by the late Senator Edward Kennedy for nearly half a century.